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#1 Attention-based clustering [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi1] [REL]

Authors: Rodrigo Maulen-Soto, Pierre Marion, Claire Boyer

Transformers have emerged as a powerful neural network architecture capable of tackling a wide range of learning tasks. In this work, we provide a theoretical analysis of their ability to automatically extract structure from data in an unsupervised setting. In particular, we demonstrate their suitability for clustering when the input data is generated from a Gaussian mixture model. To this end, we study a simplified two-head attention layer and define a population risk whose minimization with unlabeled data drives the head parameters to align with the true mixture centroids.

Subject: NeurIPS.2025 - Poster